Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Money's Worth. Vidal claimed that he had deliberately enticed Buckley into the TV eruption as a public service. "Looking and sounding not unlike Hitler, but without the charm," Vidal wrote, "he began to shriek insults in order to head me off, and succeeded, for by then my mission was accomplished: Buckley had revealed himself. I had enticed the cuckoo to sing its song, and the melody lingers...
Vidal says he did not mean to link Buckley to "Hitler's foreign and domestic ventures." But he insists that Buckley's views "are very much those of the founders of the Third Reich who regarded blacks as inferiors, undeclared war as legitimate foreign policy and the Jews as sympathetic to international Communism...
...published this fall) is considered a monument to a generation reared in peace, stunned by World War I and the great Depression, yet remaining optimistic that a new age of reason would dawn. In one anecdote, he recalls a day in 1939, when his wife called him to hear Hitler making a speech. "I shouted back: 'I shan't come. I'm planting iris and they will be flowering long after he is dead...
...tried to organize in the crowd at the Humphrey demonstration. I had seen the faces of the women with Humphrey buttons as we yelled "Bulllllllllll-shit! Bullllllll-shit!" and "Heil Hitler!" at everything Humphrey said. We knew we wouldn't convince them...
...books being burned in Russia in 1937, under Stalin. I saw books being burned in 1942 in occupied Kiev, under Hitler, and now it has pleased God to let me know in my lifetime that my own books are being burned. Because now that I have left the Soviet Union, my books will, of course, be destroyed there too. In fact, I pray that my published works should be destroyed down to the very last one. Since they are not what I actually wrote and wanted to say to my readers, that means, after all, that they...